Such as it is. What I want… A boat that’s seaworthy Shoal draft (1 meter or less) That will dry more or less upright Affordable to build or buy Affordable to cruise and maintain on a tight budget Simple user servicable redundant systems Outboard motor Integrated wind vane self-steering A comfortable double bed at least …
There are times when reading the yachting press (in those rare times when my scum sucking zinio app actually works) that I feel that we’re not looking at boats anymore but some crazed rendering of the “Blind men and an elephant” sort… A while back when I was talking about the Columbia 26, a lot …
It’s interesting what will send folks to their keyboards to tell me I’m misinformed.This week’s trigger word seemed to be 20-feet. So, here’s a layout for a 20-foot sailboat you could easily cruise in… The boat in question is the Pop 20 from BG Yacht Design… It’s a pretty cool boat. Somewhere between a CAL …
How things change… Back in 1996 when we were in the Canaries waiting for the the trades to kick in so we could sail to Martinique, our boat, “Loose Moose 2”, at 38 feet was actually larger than the average cruising boat. My guesstimate at the time was that the typical cruising boat averaged somewhere …
Lin Pardey has a post that makes all kinds of sense… You should really read it. I’ll wait… Kinda makes sense doesn’t she?
Most everyone wants a bigger boat… Well, in a sorta/kinda way. Face it, we all like lots of room to spread out in, gobs of storage space, and the extra speed a longer waterline gives us. That said, when it comes to paying for a night in a marina, a haul out, or the extra …
The fact of the matter is not everyone needs to cross oceans in which case this sort of VolksCruiserish design makes all kinds of sense… Seriously, a boat like this could take you from Nova Scotia all the way down to the Caribbean (or if you’re of the West coast tribe, Alaska to Central America)… …
a great VolksCruiserish design of the coastal variety… Read More »
I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that one of the reasons you’re reading this post is because you want to spend less rather than more… Am I right? While the obvious answer “Just spend less” to the question of “How do I spend less on boat stuff?” is correct, for some reason …
There’s an excellent article in the new Latitude 38 (the best free sailing magazine around) about emergency rudders on the cheap. You should really give it a read… Really.
This is just neat… A Garmin GPS chartplotter and fishfinder for $299. While being told I’m a Luddite all the time I can still see the value of good quality cheap electronic aids to navigation because they make the whole VoksCruising gig easier, safer, and more affordable. Sure you can pay a lot more for …
and in “the best of times the worst of times” department… Read More »
